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From: William Roush
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It's admitted on the BitCoin website that transactions aren't completely
anonymous, I wonder how much information about dealers (or possibly
buyers, not sure how the Silk Road worked) can be derived from the 3.3m
worth of first-hand transactions they have access to now (as I
understand it, they have the wallet).
William Roush

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From: Lynn Dixon
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All transactions are stored in the block chain and are not anonymous.
However, a wallet is anonymous once you generate it. There is no personal
information stored in the Wallet and no way to tie it back to you.
If the government did seize the guy's Wallet (he possibly stores it on his
server? which would be stupid) then they do indeed have access to all the
btc in that Wallet.
And from reading the article, it appears the guy running the Silk Road was
an idiot.
We did see a small bubble drop for about 6 hours after the story broke as
people started panicked selling, but the market recovered with a few hours.
This was not a direct attack by the government on the validity of Bitcoins.

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From: William Roush
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Well it's as anonymous as that wallet will be, so it depends on what
else you may purchase from that wallet and how careful you are... As
more wallets and relevant databases get sized for whatever reason in the
future (it'll always happen as long as BitCoin is around), you can start
building profiles on wallets.
Yeah I don't see an illegal site being brought down as any "attack on
BitCoins".
William Roush